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Rampant logging tears through Bandarban's Parabon forests as hills are carved to haul timber

Dhaka, April 23 -- Parabon Plunder: A Forest Unprotected Slicing through the slopes: Illegal trails are being carved into the hills to haul timber from the Parabon forest. Lush ridges are being strip... Read More


Thirst grips Bandarban hills as unsafe water pits replace reliable sources

Dhaka, April 1 -- By the end of February, the hills had already begun to thirst. What should have been the early stretch of a manageable dry season has instead turned severe. Tube wells falter, ring ... Read More


Nurtured for generations, village forest Lungthausi Parabon sustains life and shields nature

Dhaka, March 22 -- It was 1957. A handful of Baum families left behind their old settlement and walked into the deep hills, beyond roads and beyond reach -- into a forest that would become both their ... Read More


Alphabet created by a teenage hill boy in 1980s takes Mro language to Google Play

Dhaka, Feb. 21 -- A script devised by a teenage boy in the hills of Bandarban in the early 1980s has quietly crossed into the digital age, finding a place on Google Play and computer keyboards in a ra... Read More